Talk:renewable
Add topicLatest comment: 16 days ago by Father of minus 2 in topic RFV discussion: July 2024–February 2025
Renewable vs sustainable
[edit]Reading the current entry which reads in part
Adjective renewable ... 2. (of a resource) Sustainable;...
suggests that renewable and sustainable are the same thing when applied to resources.
There are some very important differences. Whale oil is renewable but its exploitation was not sustainable. Andrewa (talk) 07:36, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
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(Noun) ‘A thing that is renewable’ Inqilābī 13:58, 7 July 2024 (UTC)
- This is really common in reference to renewable energy sources, but usually as a collective plural. Not sure if it’s used more generally or in the singular, though. Probably relevant to note that this was originally added as
Something that can be renewed, but especially a renewable source of energy
, with the resource sense being split out later, so it may have just been a faulty inference that it could be used in reference to anything else. Theknightwho (talk) 19:07, 7 July 2024 (UTC)- ‘Something that can be renewed, but’ — this part itself needs verification. Mere guessworks and hypothetical senses are liable for deletion, instead of letting them sneakily being merged with a different sense to avoid RFV scrutiny. Inqilābī 04:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- You're ascribing a higher level of quality to our existing entries than is warranted. I thought that a wiki encouraged contributions from all and did not require every wording change to be cited in advance. That's why we have RfV etc., for after-the-fact quality control. DCDuring (talk) 14:42, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- ‘Something that can be renewed, but’ — this part itself needs verification. Mere guessworks and hypothetical senses are liable for deletion, instead of letting them sneakily being merged with a different sense to avoid RFV scrutiny. Inqilābī 04:31, 9 July 2024 (UTC)
- I found one use apart from renewable energy sources - "a renewable" can also be a type of fuse - so there are at least other renewables. I'd be happy to have this as the main sense and make the other two subsenses. Smurrayinchester (talk) 14:51, 10 July 2024 (UTC)